08 October 19
It doesn’t take many good days of fundraising to pay all of RSN’s bills for the entire month. But a really bad day of fundraising just frays everyone’s nerves and kicks the can down the road towards the end of the month.
Today is starting out looking like a very bad day of fundraising.
Why?
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07 October 19
Andy Borowitz | Trump Sees New Polls and Orders Ukraine to Investigate Elizabeth Warren
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "After looking at the most recent polls for the Democratic Presidential race, Donald J. Trump has ordered the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Senator Elizabeth Warren."
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Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "After looking at the most recent polls for the Democratic Presidential race, Donald J. Trump has ordered the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Senator Elizabeth Warren."
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Cy Vance. (photo: Shutterstock)
Federal Judge Rules Trump Must Turn Over His Tax Returns to Manhattan DA
David A. Fahrenthold and Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Trump's lawsuit seeking to block the Manhattan district attorney from obtaining the president's tax returns as part of an investigation into hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign."
David A. Fahrenthold and Ann E. Marimow, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Trump's lawsuit seeking to block the Manhattan district attorney from obtaining the president's tax returns as part of an investigation into hush-money payments during the 2016 campaign."
EXCERPT:
Monday’s ruling by U.S. Judge Victor Marrero was still a broad rejection of Trump’s precedent-shattering argument in this case.
The president argued that, as long as he is president, he cannot be investigated by any prosecutor, anywhere, for any reason.
Marrero said that was “repugnant” to an American ideal as old as the Constitution: that no man, even a president, is above the law.
“The Court cannot square a vision of presidential immunity that would place the President above the law with the text of the Constitution, the historical record, the relevant case law” or any other authority, Marrero wrote.
“This Court cannot endorse such a categorical and limitless assertion of presidential immunity from judicial process,” Marrero wrote in another section of his 75-page ruling.
Confederate generals. (photo: Soohee Cho/The Intercept/National Archives/University of Georgia School of Law/Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress/Getty Images)
James Risen | Why Is the Army Still Honoring Confederate Generals?
James Risen, The Intercept
Risen writes: "Many bases are named for Confederates who were ardent white supremacists in the South before, during, and after the Civil War."
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James Risen, The Intercept
Risen writes: "Many bases are named for Confederates who were ardent white supremacists in the South before, during, and after the Civil War."
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Francisco Erwin Galicia told The Dallas Morning News that he fears Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still trying to have him deported. (photo: Ryan Michalesko)
Is ICE Trying to Deport This US Citizen? Francisco Galicia Remains in Limbo 2 Months After Release
Obed Manuel, The Dallas Morning News
Manuel writes: "A dark cloud hangs over Francisco Galicia. About two months after his release from ICE custody, the U.S. government is still processing him for deportation - even after his story made national news and his attorney provided his Dallas County birth certificate to immigration authorities."
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Obed Manuel, The Dallas Morning News
Manuel writes: "A dark cloud hangs over Francisco Galicia. About two months after his release from ICE custody, the U.S. government is still processing him for deportation - even after his story made national news and his attorney provided his Dallas County birth certificate to immigration authorities."
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Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. (image: Mark Wilson/Getty Images/Slate)
Steven Mnuchin Was Hopelessly Crooked Even Before the Newest Scandals Came Along
Jeremy Stahl, Slate
Stahl writes: "Mnuchin has been implicated in many, many, many scandals-big, medium, and small-since President Donald Trump first nominated the former Goldman Sachs chief information officer, hedge fund manager, foreclosure specialist, and film executive to be secretary of the treasury."
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Jeremy Stahl, Slate
Stahl writes: "Mnuchin has been implicated in many, many, many scandals-big, medium, and small-since President Donald Trump first nominated the former Goldman Sachs chief information officer, hedge fund manager, foreclosure specialist, and film executive to be secretary of the treasury."
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U.S. soldiers walk together during a joint U.S.-Turkey patrol, near Tel Abyad, Syria September 8, 2019. (photo: Reuters)
US Pulls Troops From Syria as Turkey Prepares Offensive
teleSUR
Excerpt: "The United States began pulling troops back from the northeast Syria border Monday, opening the way for a Turkish strike on Kurdish-led forces long allied to Washington."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "The United States began pulling troops back from the northeast Syria border Monday, opening the way for a Turkish strike on Kurdish-led forces long allied to Washington."
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Climate march. (photo: John Keeble/Getty Images)
Dozens of Activists Arrested in a 'Global Climate Rebellion'
Justine Calma, The Verge
Calma writes: "Arrests are underway as environmental protesters kicked off what they dubbed a 'global rebellion' for the climate today. Protests organized by the group Extinction Rebellion are planned throughout 60 cities over the week."
Justine Calma, The Verge
Calma writes: "Arrests are underway as environmental protesters kicked off what they dubbed a 'global rebellion' for the climate today. Protests organized by the group Extinction Rebellion are planned throughout 60 cities over the week."
EXCERPT:
There have been more than 135 arrests so far in London, although Extinction Rebellion said as many as 1,000 people have volunteered for arrest. In Sydney, 30 people have been arrested, including four protesters under the age of 16, The Guardian reports. Hundreds more were removed from a sit-in blocking a main road, according to the BBC. The actions are expected to continue across the US.
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The actions were organized by Extinction Rebellion, a movement founded in the UK last year. The group rose to international prominence after nearly shutting down London with its demonstrations in April. The group says its strategy is to use nonviolent civil disobedience “in an attempt to halt mass extinction and minimise the risk of social collapse” due to climate change. That strategy included drenching the Treasury in Westminster with fake blood on October 3rd. On October 7th, protesters chained themselves to two cars blocking Westminster’s Victoria Embankment. Video shows police cutting protesters free from the cars.
Extinction Rebellion spray 1800 litres of fake blood outside the Treasury, which they say is failing to tackle climate change.
But a malfunction caused them to lose control of the hose which flailed across the road before it could be brought under control.
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Police are cutting two Extinction Rebellion protesters out of a car blocking off Victoria Embankment in #Westminster.
They’re locked to a piece of concrete that’s lodged in the vehicle.
The group’s planning to take over 12 sites around Parliament for the next two weeks.
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Organizers expect today’s London protests to draw five times as many people as the ones in April. Demonstrators occupying the Lambeth Bridge practiced yoga. While others were cuffed and taken away, onlookers documented on social media. Extinction Rebellion planned to protest in 12 sites around Westminster, each one representing a different cause like “Global Food Justice” and “Peace.” Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid, and New York City were also major targets.
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“It’s the Western countries, the European countries, North America that have got us into this mess. And so, personally speaking, I think we have a big responsibility to try and get us out of that,” Jonathan Mintram, regional liaison coordinator with Extinction Rebellion in the UK, told The Verge. Cumulatively, since the Industrial Revolution, the United States has contributed the most planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions and remains the second biggest polluter after China.
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